articles by Jim Forest

24.5 — Sept/Oct 2011

A Friendship of Letters

On the Correspondence Between Thomas Merton & Dorothy Day


20.4 — May 2007

Pilgrim’s Illness

on the Spiritual Journeys of the Sick & the Dying


16.8 — October 2003

Rest for Our Souls

Confession in an Age of Self-Esteem


14.9 — November 2001

Pilgrims of the Cross

The Beatitude of Persecution


14.8 — October 2001

Mrs. Jellyby & St. John of the Cross

on Activism & Prayer


14.6 — July/August 2001

Albanian Resurrection

The Story of Archbishop Anastasios & the Rebirth of the Albanian Orthodox Church


12.3 — May/June 1999

Not the Chaplain of Ethnic Cleansing

The Orthodox Church in Serbia


12.3 — May/June 1999

Christian Types, Christian Virtues, Christian Unity

The Evangelical Path to Christian Unity


12.1 — January/February 1999

A Finland Diary

A Journey into the Religious Past & Present of Finland


short pieces by Jim Forest

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